The Mexican Exception: Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy

The war on drugs has opened up a discussion on whether Mexico is living a state of exception or even becoming a failed state. This book argues that sovereign exceptionality has always been central to Mexican modernity. In this book Williams maps out political and cultural counter-genealogies in order to shed light on the workings of the constitutive couple of democracy (equality and freedom) in modern and contemporary Mexico. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Year of Publication: 2011 Location: New York, NY